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Natural History Museum

Among the museums - civic in Venice to visit, the Natural History Museum in Venice offers an interactive and engaging guided tour, designed to blend harmoniously with the refined atmosphere of one of the oldest buildings of Venice, the Fontego dei Turchi.

Here, you will find the information to plan your visit to the Natural History Museum of Venice: opening times and prices, closures, description of the types of exhibitions and museum pass to all Venice civic museums including the Venice Museum of Natural History.

Thanks to venetoinside.com, you can buy the Museum Pass in Venice or a single ticket for the Museum of Natural History in Venice, Italy online!

Ticket

Natural History Museum

The SINGLE TICKET for the Natural History Museum of Venice includes one entrance to the permanent collections of the museum.

Please note that the temporary exhibitions of the museum may not be included in the single admission ticket.

How to book

Choose the date of your visit and the number of tickets. Please note that this date is indicative: in case of necessity you will be able to use your ticket before or after the date you chose while booking.

Enter your personal information.

Verify the accuracy of the information submitted: once the payment has been made, the booking cannot be modified nor cancelled.

Pay by credit card.

The voucher may be downloaded at the end of the online booking reservation and it will be also sent to you via email. Please make sure you provide a valid email address.

Remember to print the voucher and bring it with you the day of the visit! The voucher is the only valid document and must be present at the ticket office only on a paper copy in order to convert it into the entrance ticket.

The ticket price includes booking fees

Remember to read important info

Choose the date of your visit and the number of tickets. Please note that this date is indicative: in case of necessity you will be able to use your ticket before or after the date you chose while booking.

Enter your personal information.

Verify the accuracy of the information submitted: once the payment has been made, the booking cannot be modified nor cancelled.

Pay by credit card.

The voucher may be downloaded at the end of the online booking reservation and it will be also sent to you via email. Please make sure you provide a valid email address.

Remember to print the voucher and bring it with you the day of the visit! The voucher is the only valid document and must be present at the ticket office only on a paper copy in order to convert it into the entrance ticket.

The ticket price includes booking fees

Remember to read important info

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Choose a date

Please select an approximate date for your entry ticket. In case of necessity, you can use it also before or after the chosen date.

Built in the first half of the 12thcentury, the Fontego dei Turchi is considered one of the most distinctive buildings overlooking the Grand Canal. The Fontego dei Turchi became a famous place of business for the Turkish merchants in Venice, a function which it held for nearly two centuries after being the representative office of the Republic of Venice and the home of the local noble families. In the 18th century, after a restoration in order to recover the original building, the Fontego dei Turchi housed the Correr Museum. Since 1923 it has included the Natural History Museum of Venice.

Its display is one of the spearheads of the museums in Venice: the Natural History Museum boasts a modern and attractive layout which enables visitors to interact with the exhibits.

On the ground floor of the Natural History Museum in Venice, Italy the entrance leads visitors into the first two rooms of the exhibition:

The Gallery of Cetaceans boasts two of the major attractions of the museum, the skeleton of a fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) approximately 20m long and that of a young sperm whale (Physeter catodon). The Cetaceans are suspended from the ceiling thanks to steel structures that allow you to travel through the space provided below, together with information and facts, as well as a device for playing whale songs.

In the Aquarium of Tegnùe you can admire one of the most peculiar natural environments of the Northern Adriatic Sea, recreated in a 5 m long tank. The tegnùe are restricted areas where the seabed of the Adriatic, usually sandy or muddy, becomes hard and rocky, giving rise to an oasis of great and unusual biological diversity. The Venice, Italy Natural History Museum has focused for years on these fascinating areas, both from an environmental point of view and to study the species that live there. To encourage the involvement of visitors to the Natural Museum of Venice, families and especially children and students, the hall has also prepared a 'Virtual Aquarium' which promotes interaction with the various species that are housed inside it.

The first floor of the Civic Museum of Natural History at the Venice Fontego Dei Turchi is divided into three clearly defined sections:

The trail of life. From the appearance of the first living organisms to humans, a ‘guided’ visit from fossils - the fundamental key to understanding the formation and history of life on Earth - through a succession of rooms that combine artefacts, images, reproductions and multimedia devices to help the visitor to enter in contact with the testimony of our more distant past. In this section the most famous exhibits of the Venice Museum of Natural History are kept - dinosaurs: the skeleton of Ouranosaurus nigeriensis more than 7m long and the skull of Sarchosuchus imperator discovered by the famous palaeontologist Giancarlo Ligabue during his expeditions in Africa.

Collecting to astonish, collecting to study: evolution of nature collecting and the birth of scientific museology. The Venice Science Museum presents nature collecting inside six rooms and two subsections: 'Venetian Explorers’, with the exceptional collections of Giovanni Miani and Giuseppe De Reali – who during the 19th and early 20th century travelled to North Africa and Saharan and Equatorial Africa - plus a room dedicated to Giancarlo Ligabue. The second subsection is devoted to naturalistic museology. From the 16th century Wunderkammer which houses all sorts of objects collected with the sole purpose to entertain, until the advent of the scientific method that encourages the creation of collections for studying purposes, the interpretation and classification of materials. This section ends in a large room overlooking the Grand Canal, where the most important collections of the Museo di Storia Naturale in Venice are exhibited in an impressive cabinet together with scientific instruments and publications by many students who helped to enrich the heritage of the museum of natural history in Venice.

The strategies of life. A journey to discover the differences and similarities between the different forms of life, both current and extinct, explaining: 'form and function' (biodiversity and life strategies on earth), 'Nutrition' (strategies for food, energy, types of nutrition and the cycle of life); 'Movement' (movement in space and in different situations).

The Lagoon Floor

A section devoted entirely to the Venice Lagoon and the relationship between man and environment: organisms, animals, plants and studies tell the evolution of the territory in which the Civic Museum of Natural History stands. Visitors will have access to a surprising interpretation to understand the unique and special relationship that binds Venice to its Lagoon: an in-depth sensory and symbolic visit inside the microcosm of the lagoon, an extraordinary environment for both its geomorphologic features and the traditions related to its natural and environmental features and its landscape.

In addition to the exhibition, the Museo di Storia Naturale in Venice, Italy has a vast storage with examples of more than two million pieces. However, these areas are only accessible on demand by researchers and scholars as the proper preservation of the precious artefacts housed in them must be ensured. The storage rooms of the Venice, Italy Science Museum contain: botanical and zoological collections, minerals, rocks, fossils, antique scientific instruments, collections of anatomy, anthropology, archaeology, Venetian ethnography and African artefacts.

32
reviews for Natural History Museum

Fairyfrinters

'Museum pass'

Ticket

Museum Pass

Good value for money. Easy to exchange voucher for pass at Murano Glass Museum.

Strengths

Easy to exchange as above.

Weaknesses

Card itself became tatty easily. Pity it could not be used for Campanile.

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0

10/10

hoed

June 2017

Mature couple

UNITED KINGDOM

Reviewed on 28 Jun `17 -
Booking No. 1772696
- Service sold by a Distribution Partner of Insidecom srl

'Museum Pass Venice Easy Peasy !'

Ticket

Museum Pass

Very straightforward easy to use website. Picked up pass in St Marks Sq. it took two minutes. The pass is recognised all over Venice.

Strengths

Fuss free simplicity.

Weaknesses

None

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4

7.5/10

Tommy

May 2017

Mature couple

UNITED KINGDOM

Reviewed on 08 Jun `17 -
Booking No. 1755446

'early closing'

Ticket

Museum Pass

The pass was very useful and enabled us to avoid queues at the main museums but on the day we were in Venice the museums all closed early (15.00) to facilitate a union meeting. It would have helpful to have been made aware of this in advance so that we could have re-arranged our schedule.

Strengths

avoided queues

Weaknesses

Lacked forward warning of closures.

Reply by venetoinside.com Staff

Dear Tommy,

thank you for you feedback! Unfortunately we were not informed about this extraordinary union meeting and therefore were not able to notify our customers that the museums would have closed before the usual closing time. We apologize for any inconvenience!

Best regards,The venetoinside.com staff

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5

10/10

JG

May 2017

Mature couple

AUSTRALIA

Reviewed on 04 Jun `17 -
Booking No. 1747521
- Service sold by a Distribution Partner of Insidecom srl

'WifiExpress'

Ticket

Museum Pass

Easy online purchase and avoided the huge queues.

Strengths

Easy

Weaknesses

Have to convert the online voucher to a pass on site.

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5

2/10

Chuck

May 2017

Mature couple

UNITED STATES

Reviewed on 24 May `17 -
Booking No. 1752376

'Smart Phone Voucher'

Ticket

Museum Pass

Although the email for my booking indicated that the " voucher is the only valid document and you can present it to our staff either on a paper copy or on a mobile device", the voucher on my smart phone was not accepted at the Doge's Palace. In addition, the staff at the Palace acted very annoyed that I was trying to submit the documentation on my mobile device.

Reply by venetoinside.com Staff

Dear Chuck,

unfortunately on the confirmation email it is specified ‘The voucher is the only valid document and you can present it to our staff either on a paper copy or on a mobile device (smartphones, tablets or other devices) according to instructions specified on it’. The voucher of the Museum Pass clearly said that the voucher MUST BE PRESENTED on a paper copy. We are sorry you did not read carefully the information, we are transparent in notifying our customers about the correct procedure to use their reservation.

Best regards,The venetoinside.com staff

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6

9/10

Chris

September 2016

Mature couple

UNITED STATES

Reviewed on 12 Oct `16 -
Booking No. 16108923

'Much Value'

Ticket

Museum Pass

We were only in Venice long enough to see a couple of the museums on the pass, but Dodges Palace was worth the price alone.

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3

9.5/10

KLW

August 2016

Mature couple

UNITED KINGDOM

Reviewed on 12 Sep `16 -
Booking No. 1687093

'So easy'

Ticket

Museum Pass

Very straight forward ticket collection with voucher at Doge's Palace early in morning before the queues had built up and then easy to access some very interesting museums included on pass. All had great facilities and very well kept informative collections. Places we managed to visit over a long weekend were: The amazing Doge's Palace, surprisingly large Correr Museum, fascinating Glass Museum on Murano, classy Casa Pesara (Modern Art and Japanese artefacts), beautiful Ca Rezzonico (18th Century palazzo). Fully recommend buying a Museum pass and I would do it again.

Strengths

Ease of collection; peace of mind, value for money; several beautiful museums well worth seeing

Weaknesses

Some museums were not included but are on the map i.e The Clock Tower. Also two museums are within the Correr Museum anyway (Archaeology/Library)

Reply by venetoinside.com Staff

Dear KLW,

thank you for your kind and detailed review! As for the museums included, please consider that they are indicated both online and on the voucher issued at the end of the online reservation. On the voucher there is no map showing the museums, so it is not clear to us where you found the map with museums not included in the Museum Pass. Please send us further detail at info@insidecom.it.

Best regards,The venetoinside.com staff

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9/10

Sossie

August 2016

Mature couple

UNITED KINGDOM

Reviewed on 07 Sep `16 -
Booking No. 1685845

'Museum Passes'

Ticket

Museum Pass

Once again I booked tickets for the Museum pass and this was made very easy. I would recommend this site.

Strengths

Everything simple to use and was a bonus on our holiday.

Weaknesses

No weaknesses.

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0

9/10

lisboa

August 2016

Young couple

PORTUGAL

Reviewed on 27 Aug `16 -
Booking No. 1680210

'myname'

Ticket

Museum Pass

Good

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1

0/10

SavvyTraveller

June 2016

Family with children

UNITED STATES

Reviewed on 14 Jul `16 -
Booking No. 1658933

'Welcome to the 21st Century'

Ticket

Museum Pass

We purchased 4 tickets on-the-go. Afterwards we realized that we needed to print them but, of course, the museums don't have the facilities and the people who were working there the day of were rather dismissive of our predicament. Almost 100 Euro straight down the drain. Even with the emailed confirmation we were barred entry and, in this age of digital technology, that was completely inexcusable.

Reply by venetoinside.com Staff

Dear SavvyTraveller,

we are deeply sorry about what happened. Unfortunately a paper copy of the voucher is required by the Venice Civic Museums and therefore we have to comply with their official regulations. The necessity to print the voucher is specified on venetoinside.com before the beginning of the online reservation procedure, as we are transparent in conveying this important information to our customers… We regret you missed this important detail but hope that your comment will help other travellers to avoid the same omission.

Please bear in mind that, in case of necessity, you will be able to use your ticket before or after the date chosen at the time of booking. In addition, please note that ticket's validity starts from the moment of collection at the ticket office of the first museum you are going to visit, even if it's not on the date indicated on the voucher.

The MUSEUM PASS is a cumulative ticket which allows you the visits to the permanent collections of the Civic Museums currently open and to those connected:

Museum of Palazzo Mocenigo home to the Study Centre for the History of Textiles and Costumes

Ca' Pesaro - International Gallery of Modern Art and the Oriental Art Museum

Natural History Museum

Glass Museum of Murano

Lace Museum in Burano

The admissions to the Clock Tower and Palazzo Fortuny are NOT INCLUDED in the Museum Pass.

The museum Pass is valid for 6 months starting from the day you collect the ticket at the ticket office of one of the museums included in the Museum Pass. The ticket allows only one entry for each museum and it can be collected in any of the museums included in the Museum Pass.

PRICE REDUCTIONS: children from 6 to 14 years. FREE ENTRANCE for children from 0 to 5 years.

Once the payment has been made, you will receive an email with attached your voucher of the reservation. We remind you that it is compulsory to print the voucher and present it at the ticket office of one of the museums included in the Museum Pass circuit in order to convert it into an entrance ticket. The ticket must be collected at the ticket office of the first museum you visit (allowing time for a possible queue at the ticket counter); once you have the ticket, you can have access to other museums by presenting the ticket at the entrance, without having to queue again at the ticket offices.

If you wish to collect the ticket at the Doge's Palace, please remember to go to the 'Ticket Office Groups Only' desk: you must respect the possible waiting times, that are usually shorter compared to the waiting times at the other desks. Anyway, we suggest you to collect your ticket in one of the other museums included in the Museum Pass since they have less visitors than the Doge's Palace and therefore the waiting times are usually reduced.

Please note that when you collect your ticket you will be asked to show a valid document or your member card in order to certify your right to enjoy of a price-reduction or a free entry.

The price of the tickets listed on venetoinside.com are inclusive of the booking fee.

For the opening hours and closing days of each museum, please visit the respective page on venetoinside.com. Please be advised that, due to the new security measures concerning the entrance into the major Venice museums, there might be queues at the entrance, with consequent protraction of the usual waiting time to access the museums.

Cancellation Policies

As indicated in our Terms and Conditions - Cancellation Policies, we would like to remind you that, once the booking has been made, Museum tickets cannot be refunded nor modified. Please make sure to enter the correct data required!

Please bear in mind that, in case of necessity, you will be able to use your ticket before or after the date chosen at the time of booking.

PRICE REDUCTIONS: children from 6 to 14 years. FREE ENTRANCE for children from 0 to 5 years.

Once the payment has been made, you will receive an email with attached your voucher of the reservation. We remind you that it is compulsory to print the voucher and present it at the ticket office of the Natural History Museum in order to convert it into an entrance ticket. Please note that when you collect your ticket you will be asked to show a valid document or your member card in order to certify your right to enjoy of a price-reduction or a free entry.

The price of the tickets listed on venetoinside.com are inclusive of the booking fee.

As indicated in our Terms and Conditions - Cancellation Policies, we would like to remind you that, once the booking has been made, Museum tickets cannot be refunded nor modified. Please make sure to enter the correct data required!